| A | B |
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| Watershed | the drainage area for a region; collects and drains all water into a river |
| Mountain | region of high elevation and distorted rock-usually metamorphic |
| Plateau | region of medium toi high elevation and horizontal |
| Plain | region of low elevation and horizontal sedimentary rock |
| Escarpment | long ridge of resistant bedrock |
| Stream drainage pattern | the pattern of streams that develops because of varying resistance of bedrock |
| Physical weathering | rock breaks up & is still the same bedrock |
| Chemical weathering | rock breaks up and changes to a different material |
| Erosion | moving of rock material by natural agents such as wind, water or glaciers |
| Deposition | the process where the rock material is dropped |
| Abrasion | wearing down of rock by a grinding action |
| Striations | long parelle grooves in rock and bedrock left by glacier movement |
| Glacier till | unsorted glacial deposits |
| Esker | long winding ridge formed when sediment in glacial stream is dropped by a melting glacier |
| Drumlin | oval shaped hill formed from moraine deposits; shaped by an advancing glacier |
| Kettle | glacial pond formed when a hunk of ice is buried and melts |
| Delta | a triangular shaped deposit of sorted sediment at the mouth of a river |
